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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chomolungma who wrote (4506)	12/4/2000 11:03:08 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

The Gore people know they will lose if spoiled ballots are given the "voter intent" test in heavily Bush counties. The heavily bush counties use mostly optical paper readers for ballot counting, not the punch cards. TP

To: chomolungma who wrote (4506)	12/4/2000 11:17:34 AM
From: TraderGreg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

<<, the spoiled ballots were concentrated in African-American sections of downtown Jacksonville. True enough, but those precincts have small populations so they don't make up anywhere near a majority of the spoilage. Fully 16,650 of the spoiled votes came in districts Mr. Bush carried by more than 2 to 1.>> This paragraph appears contradictory. If the spoiled ballots in Afr-Amer precincts don't make up a majority of the spoilage, then the spoiled ballots can't be "concentrated" in African-American sections. Do they mean the %of spoilage is higher but the raw numbers aren't? Poor choice of words or am I missing something. TG